FAQs

SUI Helper fails at download binary stage

How to start/restart sui-node?

Assuming you have setup your SUI fullnode or validator using SUI Helper.To start a sui-node process run the following command

sudo service sui-node start

To restart sui-node process run

sudo service sui-node restart

How to check if my SUI node is syncing?

You can check if your node is syncing blocks in any of the following ways.

Using SUI Node Checker Use this tool https://www.scale3labs.com/check/sui. Run the check atleast twice with an interval of minimum 10 seconds and observe your node block height, it should increase.

Run this command on your SUI node server

curl --location --request POST http://localhost:9000 \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{ "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"sui_getTotalTransactionBlocks","id":1}'

Output should be something like:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"23446624","id":1}

Run this command multiple times, if your node is syncing fine you should notice number in result block going up.

Onboard your node on Scale3Labs Autopilot To observe syncing trend on your node, the best way to do is by onboarding your node on https://www.scale3labs.com/#autopilot.

My SUI node is not syncing, what should I do?

If you have just setup a new node and its not syncing, this could mostly be due to your node unable to find peers. Follow the steps to add peers to your SUI node config file.

cd into directory where you have fullnode.yaml or validator.yaml file (If you do not know where the file is, check the FAQ for how to find config file). For most of the scenarios it’s by running
```
cd ~/sui/
```
add peers to the list. This list is taken from here.

This peer list is only for testnet

sudo tee -a fullnode.yaml << END
p2p-config:
  seed-peers:
    - address: "/dns/sui-rpc-pt.testnet-pride.com/udp/8084"
    - address: "/dns/sui-rpc-pt2.testnet-pride.com/udp/8084"
    - address: "/dns/sui-rpc-testnet.bartestnet.com/udp/8084"
    - address: "/ip4/38.242.197.20/udp/8080"
    - address: "/ip4/178.18.250.62/udp/8080"
    - address: "/ip4/162.55.84.47/udp/8084"
    - address: "/dns/wave-3.testnet.n1stake.com/udp/8084"
END

Once added, restart the sui-node process by running
```
sudo service sui-node restart
```

How to check SUI version?

Check SUI version by running binary. First cd to the path where you have your sui-node binary
```
    ./sui-node --version
```

By making the following API call. this requires jq to be installed.

If you have a different custom setup, make sure to change localhost and port to your desired values.

    curl --location --request POST http://localhost:9000 \
        --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        --data-raw '{ "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"rpc.discover","id":1}' | jq '.result.info.version'

If you have already onboarded your node on Scale3 Autopilot, you can check it on metrics dashboard.

Where is my Node config file?

Config file for fullnode is fullnode.yaml whereas for validators its validator.yaml.Generally, they are located at

    cd ~/sui/

But if you have used different folder path during the setup and you don’t recall it now, you can find the config file by checking the sui-node linux service.

    cat /etc/systemd/system/sui-node.service | grep 'ExecStart'

The output of above command will have --config-path value, that’s the file path of your config file.

sui-node process is failing, how do I check logs?

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